How the fuck are people getting infected with this? I thought ransomware was for only old people and retards

How the fuck are people getting infected with this? I thought ransomware was for only old people and retards.

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>people stop updating windows 7 & 10 due to increased bloat
>microsoft continues to push bloat but with a few security updates
>hackers rek everyone who doesnt update

Wikileaks released NSA's tools to the public, hackers are using them to attack windows PCs, mainly older operating systems and Windows 7 systems without the patch released in march.

Mainly targetting systems on internal networks with shitty security.

TL;DR don't carry your hipster ass to the local starbucks and connect to their wifi.

>Wikileaks
It was shadowbrokers you moron

People still fall for email attachments and Nigerian prince scams

This is what happens when you visit any website without disabling scripts. Forbes had ransomware embedded in their advertisements 2 years ago.

This isn't from just downloading random stuff. If you think you're safe because you don't download shady stuff then you're mistaken, malicious code can execute from any script enabled website and install ransomware.

It's mostly businesses and hospitals that don't upgrade their shit due to the cost.

normies are illiterate retards that would even disable antivirus if some site says that you have to do that to run their program.

How to disable?

There's extensions for browsers that work in different ways. People have been talking about having some sort of adblock, and adblock blocker blocker, and a script killer since around that forbes thing.
It's pretty nice not seeing ads, and after a while when you whitelist enough scripts and websites just work without taking too long to load and process... It's almost like breathing fresh air, or drinking cleaner water and wondering how you ever lived before.

>malicious code can execute from any script enabled website and install ransomware.
If the attacker also has an unpatched browser RCE exploit, sure.

NoScript on Firefox.

Chrome has built-in script JavaScript blocking, but ScriptSafe add-on gives you more control over third party scripts.

Example one
>Tfw Sup Forums is being ruined by these idiots

t. windows 10 user

Do you really think this could leak something so damaging? Honestly, user.

If you didn't get the windows patch from last week you are vunable and don't even have to go to any website or open any email attachments. All an attacker has to do is send an infected attachment. That attachment gets scanned by windows defender automatically. And you are infected. The worm can then spread across your network via smb to other unpacked machines.

That is why you need to patch daily instead of this once a week or month shit most companies do.

Good thing I disabled it last month.

"ALL YOU NEED IS WINDOWS DEFENDER" will always be a meme.

NSA backdoors were a mistake.

I'm on Windows 7, which patches do I need?

There are so many damn updates on Windows I have no idea, it's not like you can just check a version number.

I have a windows 7 vm on my macbook with access to the main files. Probably won't have this since I hardly use it. But still worrying

windows is cancer

deactivate your atoms

>This is what happens when you visit any website without disabling scripts
This has nothing to do with JavaScript and everything to do with a) people running any random exe or file that downloads without second thought, and b) browser exploits, especially plugins -- Flash and Adobe Reader in particular have historically been easy targets for those kind of malicious ads.

>keep nothing important in my windows install
>only games
>everyth8ig that actualy matters is in linux/on an external formated with ext 4 so windows cant automount it
>literallly laugh at this and reinstall windows

>it's not like you can just check a version number.
You can though. For example, I'm on Windows 1073, OS build 15063.250

I have a comp with Vista I haven't patched in a year, how fucked is it?

Windows 7 was patched last year. It was nice of Microsoft to let the NSA continue exploiting Windows 10 until March, though.

Open SMB port exploit

>actually having a computer

Fuck off. Ads are a core component of internet culture and the internet experience. If you disable all ads and Javascript you might as well never even browse.

Notice a sudfen drop in the amount of people on this site complaining windows 10 forces updates on them?
Because most computer users, especially lot's of Sup Forums have to be babbied

These exploits were intended to be permanent and to be used by jewish intelligence services only, but the guys who leaked them to the public ruined (((their))) plan.

I removed everyone but my own right privileges on my NAS, but i heard there was ransomeware that could still fuck it.

Your a fucking dumb ass
It's a SMB virus
You connect to a network you fucked
Simple

Stop fucking posting you cancer cyst

Doubtfull unless you keep it mounted to your windows machine at all times

SMB has a bug that makes the distro of this shit like Sasser in XP days.

> Ads are a core component of internet culture and the internet experience
NO IT ISNT

*write. I'm a retard.
I do but I'm on windows 10 with the latest patch and no likelyhood of getting rekt.

This. I too want absolutely no news or entertainment on the internet.

what the fuck am I reading
I've had adblock turned on for like 10 years

ads are the whole reason I use the internet what better to look at then click bait and car insurance

fucks given = 0

How to disable SMB on windows 7? I don't need this crap anyway.

This software has nothing to with installing malicious exes or running shady scripts. You can get infected just by being connected to the internet and having certain windows features enabled without the most recent security patches. No user interaction required whatsoever.

>NoScript

Seriously nigger? uMatrix is far better.

.t marketer

why do you spout bullshit you know nothing about? you need to have port 445 enabled to be vulnerable.

if you have your own router and not some ISP router + modem bullshit combo then it's virtually guaranteed that the port is disabled by default.

>if you have your own router and not some ISP router + modem bullshit combo
Pretty much every ISP router+modem combo comes with almost every incoming port blocked

That's true on the WAN side of things.
However, you can still get fucked if the virus gets via an alternate method on another PC in the same LAN (e.g. infected email attachment) which THEN does a SMB scan on the local network.
If the PC you use has no need for printer/file sharing, it's best to block the smb ports entirely... or just install the patch.

Let's say that there are 2 computers in a network, one is patched and up to date the other is not.
Can this worm still infect the up to date computer if the other gets compromised?

Daily reminder that this would be a non-issue if you kept proper backups.

What's the KB patch that was supposed to protect Win7 from this in march?

i have like 10TB worth of storage how could i possibly back that all up frequently. it's not worth the effort anyway.

Do windows 10 get infected?

Yes user, Windows 10 do infected unless security patch is applied

yeah you're fucked there's no way to block it and being on win10 even allows it to get on your machine with no network access or infected file transfer you need to destroy your machine immediately by dousing it with holy water while it's running

Lots of things would make this a non-issue. Not opening email attachments received from randoms on your work PC, for example.

Data changes between last backup and time of infection would still be lost. Hospitals can't afford to lose that data.

don't come here for advice if you got ransomware.

Will I get this shit from just turning on my computer? I never updated for almost a year.

Turn on computer check for updates let them run and then let it reboot

i think is rather simple. yesterday was a thread about a utorrent ad using a flash exploit to install malware on retards

easily that malware, instead of adware or something "harmless", could be the file you ignore but old fucks open when the prince of nigeria wants to confirm a voucher that gives them super aids and encrypt all your shit.

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

Browse using a Linux VM. No one needs Windows to browse the fucking internet.

Use your Windows hosts for Windows things. Easy as fuck. Free too.

Where in there

>browsing the internet on a virtual machine
literally why

So in theory, if I just shut down my computer and dont use it for a week or if I disconnect it from the internet and make some back ups, am I alright?
I also think I recently (two days ago) I put a windows update, but I dont know which one.

I have 20GB of memes and I dont want to lose them.

No

>i have like 10TB worth of storage how could i possibly back that all up frequently
Incremental/differential backups, like literally everything has been doing for at least a decade now

>ransomware

Lame. At least make embarrassing files public

There's a fuckton

DISABLE SMB1 NIGGA WTF?!

just check your exact OS and download the necessary patch

For pete's sake, do I have to spoonfeed you all?

There's a bunch of duplicates

>virus becomes a worm to infect other computers without user knowledge

umatrix.

What a nigger

P-please.

Do I have to open an infected mail or can you get this just by being connected to the internet?

...

I'm trying to download the specific update, but it keeps saying that "it's not compatible with my version." Even though it's 64 bit, same OS, and all that dealie.

I literally downloaded two of those for my Windows 7 64-bit SP1. I'm good to go

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Second one. I hope you have a router and not connected to some idiots on lan. Might want to install the patch or manually disable SMB1 anyway.

Latter.

Executives of companies are run by old people, dumb admins give them too much access to critical information, and they don't test their backups to boot

Fug

Time to hit the panic button

can i get this if i don't use a computer

that ransomware scans SMB ports connected to Internet. We are doomed!

...

Ive been very paranoid few hours ago when it started.
>read through horrors of the malware affecting people everywhere over the world
>think i might be fucked
>accidentally hover mouse cursor over youtube link
>suddenly video starts playing
I almost had heart attack.

The only W7 update I have is SP1. I have no antivirus software and I click on every advertisement and email attachment I see. How fucked am I?

>I literally downloaded two of those for my Windows 7 64-bit SP1.
Good because figuratively downloading them wouldn't have helped you at all.

With the amount of shit you must already have I doubt you'd even notice

Women click on, open, and run everything.

why wouldn't I? It's not my problem anymore if these babbys can't patch their own system after I gave the link for the patch.

Oh I'd notice a ransomware.

>Don't update since december
>Activate Windows Update, download all the updates and install them
>Restart computer
>Installing updates, gets to 100%
>"Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes"
>Sheeit
>Try to manually download the files and try again
>Same thing happens
>Try updating through PowerShell
>Same thing happens

Welp, I am fugged. Time to install Puppy Linux on a thumb drive and use that instead.

The problem is that I'm on win 10, so that win 7 update doesn't help me. Yes, I know,

>falling for le botnet

What am I supposed to do? Use Gaybuntu?

WTF the Nigerian prince is not real?

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